wraggster
January 25th, 2012, 01:41
A group of hackers who don't particularly like the PC anti-cheat service Punk Buster have launched an attack on Battlefield 3 players to make their point.
http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276366_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276366)Innocent players are logging on to find themselves banned from Punk Buster servers, being kicked from play and receiving error messages.Hackers on the site Artificial Aiming (http://www.artificialaiming.net/forum/general-discussions/56017-unerring-punkbuster-season-3-a.html) have declared: "We are bringing back the unerring of punkbuster back for a 3rd season. We have selected ggc-stream as the target since they have the most streaming bf3 servers and makes it very easy to add fake bans,"
"In 2011 we hit them with a mass ban wave and now were are banning real players from battlelog while ggc-stream is totally unaware. We have framed 150+ bf3 players alone," they add, before receiving universal praise from other forum members on the site.
EA has issued a statement with a workaround for those affected: "We are aware that some Battlefield 3 players are experiencing connection issues with PunkBuster enabled servers. This problem is limited to a small subset of players on PC and will not impact players on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
"We are actively looking into the specifics of this issue and we are confident that we will have a permanent solution in place shortly. In the meantime, if a player's connectivity has been affected, we recommend that in the interim they join servers that are not running PunkBuster. There is a filter setting for this in the multiplayer server browser."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/333279/bf3-hackers-ban-innocent-players-ea-investigating/
http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276366_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276366)Innocent players are logging on to find themselves banned from Punk Buster servers, being kicked from play and receiving error messages.Hackers on the site Artificial Aiming (http://www.artificialaiming.net/forum/general-discussions/56017-unerring-punkbuster-season-3-a.html) have declared: "We are bringing back the unerring of punkbuster back for a 3rd season. We have selected ggc-stream as the target since they have the most streaming bf3 servers and makes it very easy to add fake bans,"
"In 2011 we hit them with a mass ban wave and now were are banning real players from battlelog while ggc-stream is totally unaware. We have framed 150+ bf3 players alone," they add, before receiving universal praise from other forum members on the site.
EA has issued a statement with a workaround for those affected: "We are aware that some Battlefield 3 players are experiencing connection issues with PunkBuster enabled servers. This problem is limited to a small subset of players on PC and will not impact players on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
"We are actively looking into the specifics of this issue and we are confident that we will have a permanent solution in place shortly. In the meantime, if a player's connectivity has been affected, we recommend that in the interim they join servers that are not running PunkBuster. There is a filter setting for this in the multiplayer server browser."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/333279/bf3-hackers-ban-innocent-players-ea-investigating/